Article
Mutagenic activity detected by the Ames test in river water under the influence of petrochemical industries.
Mutation research - 1 Sept 1993
Vargas V M, Motta V E, Henriques J A
Abstract excerpt
The present study was carried out on the waters of the Caí River (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) in an area under the influence of a petrochemical industrial complex, as the continuation of a study in which the mutagenic activity of water samples was evaluated in the internal area of this complex. In...
Topics
- Brazil
- Cell Survival
- Chemical Industry
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Industrial Waste
- Linear Models
- Liver Extracts
- Microsomes, Liver
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutagens
- Mutation
- Regression Analysis
- Salmonella typhimurium
- Water Pollutants, Chemical
- Water Pollution, Chemical